could this be the new face of terror according to newly released documents the f.b.i. secretly monitor the occupy movements and even deemed them domestic terrorists the latest on this development and a class action lawsuit next in a live report. and some of the hottest high tech toys this christmas season could be spying on you we'll show you how these clever gadgets are able to track and even monitor your every move. plus the commonly used phrase all boys club certainly applies in the state of iowa a male dentist wins his case against the female assistant he fired for being too

irresistible a victory for family values or a major step back in equal rights for all. it's monday december twenty fourth happy christmas eve everybody it's four pm in washington d.c. i'm going lopez and you're watching r t. well we begin this hour with new information coming out of occupy wall street according to recent reports that have been released by the f.b.i. after a freedom of information act was requested by truthout reporter jason leopold and the partnership for civil justice local law enforcement officials have teamed up with the f.b.i. and homeland security in order to deal with the occupy movement what's more the f.b.i. actually invokes the term domestic terrorism when referring to nonviolent protesters in the occupy movement essentially confirming the movement organizers when they're

saying that the political policing was happening across the country joining me now to break down this information coming out of this foyer request as independent journalist and out activist and only just militia heather ana so first things first we already knew that the occupy movement was being closely monitored by the government but what i formation is coming out about the surveillance of the movement that we're learning now from the foyer request. well we're learning basically that jason lee is full of good make this request during the movement and as she has not and it was not granted and now it's coming out that there is a essentially lied about that and this surveillance is happening the whole time meaning that there were informants planted at the occupy camps those a new york and around the country and that the f.b.i. at the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with.

corporate america which is really really frightening and what are the terms that the f.b.i. invoked was this distant messick terrorists terms so i have a few questions based on that first of all what is considered to fall into the realm of a domestic terrorist or domestic terrorism and second does this apply to the occupy movement does it merit that title. i think that they're using a very broad definition of violence to discuss domestic terrorism because obviously an act of terrorism is doing something that's going to kill a lot of people blowing something up something that's far more. terrible and life threatening than just a couple of people assembled in civil protest so i think that they really just ran with the possibility that could get violent and use that to create to manufacture this threat of domestic terrorism because that's really what the f.b.i.

has done in a lot of these terrorism cases as you saw with muslim and arab communities with the f.b.i. spying on them a lot of it was really then feeding this information to people who were alleged terrorists but had never done anything and that's happening with occupy right now and has been happening it just only got brought to our attention now ana looking at these documents i notice that they were heavily redacted meaning that large chunks of them were taken out what kinds of information do you think live below those black lines that that are crossed off from anyone else to be able to read other than the people that are familiar with the case i think that's where a lot of the names are that's where a lot of the names of people who would be targeted. live because there are there have been talks of assassination attempt plots and things like that so i think of those names were released of organizers of people that were being intensely

surveilled and targeted and there would be so much more proper are in the press then we're staying right now and i wanted to know from you from from your studies of these these documents they are route relatively new and a lot of people have yet to sort through them but is there any indication of how far this surveillance actually expanded. but you really know at this point was that they were there and that you know some of the people we chatted up some of the people we were making friends with could have been informants and you know at this point in the news cycle it's really the tip of the iceberg we don't know a lot and which is scary and one of the interesting parts of this is that it wasn't just the f.b.i. that was working with local law enforcement agencies is also the department of homeland security and also corporate america meaning that there was private security forms that they had talked to about this and actually reading the article

that just came out recently it says that they discussed the o. ws protests on the west coast ports in order to quote raise awareness concerning this type of criminal activity do you consider the overcoat of u.s. movement criminal activity or maybe specifically what happened in los angeles versus what happened across the country. not at all it's a. first amendment it's freedom of speech it's the right to assembly it's the opposite of criminal activity and what's so ironic with all those. homeland security etc is that they're evoking this language of silence of care as and the violent side was really the police cracked out in the use of the times and tear gas and beating it incentivizes really severely injuring people so you know it's really unnecessary so and then the question comes down to if they're not like

i just said if they are not promoting or invoking criminal activity then what exactly is criminal about what they're doing or is it slowly the point that they have a political opinion that is dissenting from what homeland security and others believe in. i think it's solely the point that they have a dissenting political opinion you know and the fact that this level of organization and this level of mobilization and getting issues like class inequality into the press is threatening to these people in these large corporations is business owners and. much larger forces than that so that's where this crackdown comes in and a really interesting other point to note is that according to the foyer documents they show that the f.b.i. was also working with them to york stock exchange even before the occupy wall street protests blossomed. so now obviously wall street is

a key player in this story do you think this says anything or could it be argued that the says anything about whose interest the police the government excess or were serving in this instance of very much so i think that you know occupy wall street they say steve not to be run by a corporation and it just became so clear that well you know the f.b.i. and homeland security are supposed to work with the government to protect american . from actual terrorism threats they're actually working with corporations and the stock exchange and the financial sector to protect them so it's pretty obvious who gets rejected it is society who were going forward and that we are in a way run by these forces and in a way really reinforces all of the points that occupy was making is very

interesting to see the information coming out of this foyer request one thing also that we're learning is about this campus liaison program meaning that they also contracted campus law enforcement officials to talk with them and to try to get them involved in and working out this occupy movement in many argue and stifling it i appreciate you coming on to shedding a little bit a light on this on this foyer requests i think a lot more is going to be coming out in the near future analysts miller independent journalist and activist thank you for joining us thanks for having me and sticking with us o. ws topic five of those people arrested people representing two hundred ninety two of the people arrested in los angeles last november have filed a class action lawsuit for both their arrests and their treatment while in custody for the latest on this information on this case i was joined i am joined by r.t. correspondent ramon glendon he joins me from our l.a. bureau hi there ramona so let's just start with what is this what is this lawsuit about and what are they hoping to get out of it. throughout this class action

lawsuit was filed just last week here in los angeles and what the plaintiffs are alleging is that the defendants are the mayor of los angeles the city of los angeles and the police chief now the plaintiffs are alleging that they were wrongfully arrested and that their constitutional rights were violated their first and fourth amendment so now they have filed this lawsuit and as you mentioned it is a class action lawsuit representing nearly the three hundred people who were arrested during the occupy l.a. raid last year now ramon from what i understand it was three hundred people that were camped out for over two months in front of the city hall in los angeles and fourteen hundred police officers do i have this correct came in and blaze through the camp and arrested people. and in some instances there were even more than three hundred people at occupy l.a. camp this just happens to be the number of people who were arrested that night now

hundreds of people showed up that ny and l.a.p.d. they were not going to be numbered they came in with fourteen hundred. police officers in full riot gear. suits so this show of shock and awe was definitely at full effect a very intimidating scene when you see nearly fifteen hundred police officers surrounding a peaceful demonstration and ramon the certainly isn't the first time that we've heard. movement on having some type of scuffle with local law enforcement officials so how does this compare to other instances across the country of police and occupy kind of clashing. right well during the occupy l.a. we also have to remember that much of the media was forced very very much away from what was actually happened there was only a very select few media who were allowed to even document their raid us our selves

were pushed out of the encampment and threatened with arrest but i mean if you if you look at the history of the occupy wall street movement we we were in oakland the same place where a young veteran was hit by a hit by a projectile from a police officer in the face we saw campus police officer at several california universities beating students with but tongs and infamous pepper spray an incident at u.c. davis so. the rest is probably one of the most massive ones we remember the brooklyn bridge where there were also hundreds of people arrested but there were definitely a lot of cases during the whole occupy movement which led to police violence against peaceful demonstrators now ramon the protesters say the police use the cell called shock and awe tactic this term came about by u.s. defense secretary donald rumsfeld during the two thousand and three invasion of

iraq so i described this term and really can you can you really make that much of a comparison between the surge in iraq and the surge that happened by police forces in los angeles. oh yeah there was a very poignant analogy made by one of the attorneys who is filed this lawsuit now yes as you mentioned shock and awe was was a term made popular during the initial invasion when we thought that saddam hussein or we were told that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction in this same instance the mayor of los angeles tried to paint the occupy l.a. encampment as dangerous saying that there were children there that ran risks they even had police officers in full hazmat suits saying that occupiers may have plans to throw chemicals at them but in the end even the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in this lawsuit say the only weapon that these protesters has were the first amendment in that's the reason that they are filing this lawsuit saying that

their first amendment rights were violated and ramon we have less than an hour left but i have to ask you because we are hearing also that some of the plaintiffs aren't even occupy activists they are journalists and the like and they're also caught up in the in breath this is complicate the lawsuit at all with this lawsuit in particular is a class action lawsuit only alleging that there was wrong fluoresce a violation of the first the fourth and the fourteenth amendment no sort of talk about the second amendment being violated as you remember a couple weeks ago we reported on calvin milan who is a reporter he is. alleging that the city violated his second amendment rights but in this case it's mostly just about the wrongful arrest and the police really taking away their right to protest at a time you know when the mayor had initially shown his support for them and the city has renewed and passed a resolution supporting occupy l.a. thank you so much for that report r.t.

correspondent on the lead now in los angeles. moving on now twas the night before christmas and all through the land plates shoppers fill carts with presents at hand the stockings were hung by the chimney with care and norad said santa would soon be there but before you go looking under that christmas tree check out the special report by r t turns out that high tech toys could be spying on you now so watch this story by our teens christine. it's a bird. it's a plane. no it's actually a drone the a r drone plotter copter two point zero which also happens to be one of the hottest toys of the season. and it doesn't just look like a drone it also acts like one snapping still photos and even recording video people really love the camera the fact that you can interact with anybody as well so aside from according to law suppose he's videos on you tube facebook is well you can

obviously see the kind of interaction that you're having brookstone a toy store for adults is full of military style contraptions but the drone is one of the most famous i'm going to give my kids with that this is one of the devices that we use to kind of bring the customers and also new this year. the rover two point zero comes. like that it's controlled from an i pad i phone or android and if you don't want the person you're spying on to know they don't have to go into stealth mode. everything shuts off however stacks and so on so this year's model has an added function it has a two way audio capability that means the person controlling the device not only can record me but can also communicate with me. so what do people think. the technology is there you might as well use it because being that big people don't respond to me we're told by the things you don't want to get is there's

evidence this is already happening as you can see on websites like spy based dot com that sell nothing but tracking and monitoring devices it's also eerily clear that it's become so normal that sites like amazon have devoted an entire section to spy gadgets with products like infrared stealth binoculars and night vision goggles . once a seemingly revolutionary almost sinai idea the future it seems has arrived leaving any notion of privacy in the past in washington christine for sound our team. and while we're on the topic of privacy there's not much of it online these days you can find out just about anything or anyone on the internet and if you think hackers are the only ones trying to get into your personal information think again here's our to correspondent list walls top ten reasons you should care about cybersecurity issues being brought up in congress. well here at r t we pay close

attention to what's happening on capitol hill regarding cyber security legislation but the effects reach far beyond washington here are ten things into your daily life that are affected by cyber security first off your personal correspondence or e-mails are saved and can be accessed by the government and the private companies they contract and under current laws phone calls can already be listened to number nine your health the establishment of electronic medical records is a major part of health care reform but those records can be accessed by doctors and other health care providers some of whom aren't your personal doctor and also pinned up these private records to vulnerabilities from hackers and at number eight your money using online banking apps makes banking information passwords and account numbers easily open to scanning via smart phone and bank servers can store it in a fine features of the devices used to access the information number seven your

vote voting machines have long been called hackable and on election day we saw some regularities stemming from votes being allegedly altered as to the fact that many observers claim the current crop of technology is in need of serious oversight and should make many wonder but the possibility of throwing an election might not be too far from reality. and number six mass transit transportation systems work thanks to information and transit system networks that control navigation traffic signalling systems traction power systems traveler information and fare collection systems all of which are vulnerable to cyber attacks and number five infrastructure parts of our critical infrastructure from electric grids to water pumps and filtration systems to nuclear plants and cellular all depend on computers to function. a number for government communication governments and corporations use

security e-mail or secure e-mail rather systems to stay in contact but with techniques like spearfishing these e-mail service can do breach plus should whistleblowers like bradley manning face life and solitary confinement for passing along this information. and number three global finance high frequency trading uses computer algorithms and technological tools instead of runners on an exchange floor of course time the global finance system to computers means that it is just another part of our world affected by cyber security and number two news and information news organizations use web content systems to plug in and share their stories and governments large and small connect with constituents via official web sites which can easily be taken down and distributed denial of service attacks they can also be hacked and last but not least the surveillance state big data is here to stay the ability to store and compress huge amounts of information is getting easier

databases are already finding patterns giving individuals a digital footprint between security cameras hiding and more and more places and cell phone location information there won't be many blanks to fill in and the privacy the expectation of privacy we have or at least our parents had will be lost in washington liz wahl r.t. well if that report scared of you there are certain ways to protect your online anonymity steps computer experts have learned and are now simplifying and teaching to the masses so that they too can protect their online identities one of those techniques is known as the crypto party it teaches the basics behind it all encryption to any average joe no matter what your internet experience is r.t. web producer andrew blake actually had the chance to attend one of those online crypto parties and he filed this report. right now right this second you're being watched no there might not be spies snooping around the corner or

a vast surveillance system that may or may not be catching your every move what is for certain though is just about any activity conducted on computers can be collected and monitored but is there something you can do about it the answer is yes it's called the crypto party and they're happening right now around the world in places like boston chicago oakland in cairo people are getting together and learning about the basics of digital encryption from learning how to use the tor project a program that allows people to connect to the internet by sending data through a series of nodes to essentially make traffic almost impossible to monitor or using a simple plugin to ensure conversations are encrypted from others here a beginner's guide computer cryptography secure it out in a single setting where amateurs novices experts and well anyone can explore and learn how to make sure what's meant for one person isn't put out there for everyone scoping out the agendas of some of these events on crypto party dot org one can see

that discussion is largely cover items such as smartphone security but some sort almost all of them is an introduction to the tor project developer nadeem codebase he has concentrated his efforts in recent years on crypto cat a simple browser plug in that allows two or more people to communicate over the web off the record well a lot of people like to use facebook chat and google talk and you know the web services like that and that's great but these services actually communicate what you're talking about to facebook and google and there is no privacy your communications can easily be intercepted by these parties and also by governmental organizations so cryptic outdoes the same thing tries to establish a similar web service that's easy to use just as easy to use but at the same time there's also a transparent layer of encryption and all programs like the tor project encrypt or cat are being made so even americans can communicate freely with one another and might be the best move of any in hopes of keeping the internet open. with the launch of wiki leaks in two thousand and six activists around the world were given

an established relatively accessible outlet to publish secrets about repressive regimes and air other dirty laundry that some states might not want out in the open but despite president barack obama's campaign promises for the most transparent administration ever the government has ramped up its attack on whistleblowers in fact just recently the house of representatives voted three new the foreign intelligence surveillance act lets the government spying on e-mails and phone calls they suspect to be sent to anyone outside of the united states so whether you're a whistleblower or just a regular computer user who wants to keep their personal communications personal there is a need for it even in two thousand and twelve even in the united states but it doesn't have to be a bad thing how the reason the party in washington and you blake are cheated. on to iowa now where the state supreme court acknowledged that just because something is unfair that doesn't necessarily make it illegal late last week the court ruled in favor of dentist james knight who fired his dental assistant for being quote

irresistible this despite the fact that he described her as the best dental assistant he ever had thirty two year olds in the lesson nelson a married mother of two had been working at the office for over ten years when i gave her a month severance and then a swift kick out the door back in two thousand and ten his reason nelson was a direct threat to his marriage because he was attracted to her now apparently dr knight asked mrs nelson to repeatedly wear looser clothing the thing is that she says she wore scrubs to work each day now the dentist's wife who also works at the new york all female office was most infuriated when she found out the two were exchanging text messages although the messages were described mostly as work and family related messages however according to the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by melissa nelson if the conversation did turn. inappropriate it was always initiated by mr knight himself it's also important to note that the two never

engaged in any sexual activity of any kind now you're probably thinking the same thing i was when i first read the story at first class at first glance it seems like a case that has sexual descriptor gender discrimination written all over it but the state supreme court judges ruled in mr knight's favor saying that mrs nelson's terminations did not constitute as gender discrimination under the iowa civil rights act a ruling that mr knight's attorney stuart koch rain says was completely justified he went on to say this we do think the iowa supreme court got it completely right our position has always been mrs nelson's was never terminated because of her gender she was terminated because of concerns her behavior was not appropriate in the workplace she's an attractive lady dr knight found her behavior to be and her dress to be inappropriate but here's another interesting moment from this case

according to the iowa supreme court the justices said that dr knight and knowledges he once told mrs nelson that if she saw his pants bolding she would know that her clothing was too revealing and then there's this this is a picture of the iowa supreme court notice anything off here well in case it except your i the supreme court is an all male panel leading many to say that these seven to zero unanimous ruling in favor of mr knight was unfair and discriminatory in and of itself. this isn't the first case of its kind in iowa but it is an interesting ruling on the iowa supreme court's part and this case is based on an iowa state law so it will be difficult for mrs nelson and her legal team to pursue the case much further but there has been a lot of text written about the case and perhaps dentist one could most relate to

off author oscar wilde who famously said quote i can resist anything but temptation and that's may do it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r t america r t dot com slash usa see you at five. miss him a free. education free. car charger free. range month free . free. free. gold free blog a lot of videos for your media project a free medio dog r t v dot com. the on. the a. little.

bit leave. it. to you. good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. these are headlines for tuesday december eighteenth two thousand japanese pension funds are starting to invest in gold for the first time according to the wall street journal they're looking to mitigate the damage of market shocks and reduce the risks associated with currencies the paper says until recently they've invested .